At last!
To my friends in Merica:
Happy Thanksgiving!
Hope you don't find this right as you are Zooming with your family for dinner. But if you are, just play the game over their screen. They will think you are paying attention and maybe the game's jokes will crack you up at the appropriate times, like when your uncle talks about the election and says something ridiculous.
To my friends in the rest of the world:
Sorry that you're missing the holiday of stuffing yourself with food until you pass out.
Or do you have your own holiday for that? Probably. We tend to steal everything.
What can I tell you about the game that isn't too much of a spoiler?
This update takes place over one day, so you know that the update ends when you pass out.
That being said, there are three different ways to end the night.
PC
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Mac
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Android vs 1
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Android vs 2
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Android vs 3
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Spoilers:
What the fuck took so long?
I... don't know.
I don't really have a solid excuse. I have worked on the update between four and ten hours every day for the past month. I was hoping to knock it out in two weeks, but here we are.
With Endowed I tried to raise my standards all around, putting more time and care into the animations, renders, writing and coding.
Moving back to Hypnosis, I carried that mentality with me. Why spend extra effort with the game when it was already vastly improved from when it began? And the answer to that is I want the game to evolve.
The biggest criticism I kept seeing for Episode 12 was that it did little to deal with the events of the previous three episodes, so I did my best to bring the Main Character's reaction front and center with the help of Grace.
The second thing I set out to improve was the sex scenes. I was comfortable with the certain angles I'd been using with first-person POV in particular because it saves a whole lot of time to only show the girl and avoid using the male character. But for this episode, I challenged myself to go bigger.
I spent a lot more time to give the sex scenes of this update special attention instead of treating them as an afterthought.
As everyone that has done early testings of the game (thanks for the help there, as always!) knows, I tend to save a lot of the sex scenes for last and try to finish them last minute as I try to hit a deadline.
But for this update, I hope it's apparent that I made the effort to make them matter more in the game and not feel squeezed in.
I also did several rewrites. I want to make sure the game has a good momentum as it continues forward, not feeling too rushed nor too slow.
Anyway, thank you everyone for your patience. I hate giving estimates for when to expect the game and missing them by over a week. I'll do my best to be more realistic with everything.
Originally, my plan was to put out a new update every month. For the past year, I've managed to do that with one exception.
Still, saying "I'm going to have a new update in two weeks!" and taking a full month is no fun for anyone. Some great advice was given on Discord, so I'll be working with the different suggestions to find the right method.
Thanks for your support everyone!